She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson ( 1865 – 1959 ) and his sister Senda Berenson ( 1868 – 1954 ), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

* Icaro Mars, an Italian hang glider design

Italy: Italian Mars Society http :// www. marssociety. it

The Mars Society Italian chapter ( Italian Mars Society ) was founded in 2005.

It stems from early telescope observations of Mars by astronomers from the 19th-century who believed they saw straight lines on the planet, the first of them being the Italian Giovanni Schiaparelli in 1877.

In most languages with Latin origins ( French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Romanian, Gallician, Sardinian, Corsican, but not Portuguese ), the day is named after Mars, the Roman god of war.

It stems from early telescope observations of Mars by 19th century astronomers who, beginning with Italian Giovanni Schiaparelli in 1877, believed they saw straight lines on the planet.

* The Sons of Mars were Italian mercenaries used by the Greek kings of Syracuse until after the Punic Wars.

He must have been associated with the Italian Mars, for Cato refers to him as Mars Silvanus.

During the planet's " Great Opposition " of 1877, he observed a dense network of linear structures on the surface of Mars which he called " canali " in Italian, meaning " channels " but the term was mistranslated into English as " canals ".

* Italian Mars Society web site

The Campus Martius ( Latin for the " Field of Mars ", Italian Campo Marzio ), was a publicly owned area of ancient Rome about in extent.

In September 1877, ( a perihelic opposition of Mars occurred on September 5 ), Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli published the first detailed map of Mars.

In 1877, their choice was adopted as the prime meridian by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli when he began work on his notable maps of Mars.

Secchi commented that it " seems to play the role of the Atlantic which, on Earth, separates the Old Continent from the New " — this was the first time the fateful canale, which in Italian can mean either " channel " or " canal ", had been applied to Mars.

Today, names of Martian features derive from a number of sources, but the names of the large features are derived primarily from the maps of Mars made in 1886 by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli.

Prior astronomers, notably the German team of Wilhelm Beer and Johann Heinrich Mädler and then the Italian Giovanni Schiaparelli, had chosen a particular point on Mars as being the location of its prime meridian when they charted their observations.

* 1703 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus ( d. 1775 )

He played in Italy with Paul Jones and the Blues Society of Italian bluesman Guido Toffoletti.

Some atheist organizations, such as the Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics and the British National Secular Society, offer certificates of " debaptism ".

* In 1934-president of the Italian Genetics and Eugenics Society.

* In 1937-president of the Italian Sociological Society.

* In 1941-president of the Italian Statistical Society.

The closing song of the 1969 Michael Caine crime caper, The Italian Job, (" Getta Bloomin ' Move On " a. k. a. " The Self Preservation Society ") contains many slang terms.

* 1888 – John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society ( b. 1815 )

The official diploma presented to Italian Admiral Ernesto Burzagli when he was awarded membership in the National Geographic Society in 1928.

" Francesco Petrarcha: Introduction ; How a Ruler Ought to Govern His State ," in The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society, ed.

In 1921, Pope Benedict XV appointed him as the Italian president of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.

* 1543 – Claudio Acquaviva, Italian priest, 5th Superior General of the Society of Jesus ( d. 1615 )

* January 31 – John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator and founder of the Salesian Society ( b. 1815 )

Published originally in Italian in 1848, the founder of the Society of Charity Rosmini's seminal work Costituzione secondo la giustizia sociale " The Constitution under Social Justice " was translated into English in 2006 by Alberto Mingardi.

* The Archaeological Museum in the Italian Building of the New Palace was founded in 1827 by the Historic Society.

* Italian Society for Clinical Neurophysiology

In 1904 he was the first British subject to receive the Lavoisier medal of the French Academy of Sciences, and in 1906 he was the first to be awarded the Matteucci medal of the Italian Society of Sciences.

The city houses many cultural institutes such as the Russian Cultural Institute, the Polish Cultural Institute, the Hungarian Institute, the Czech and the Slovak Cultural Institutes, the Italian Cultural Institute, the French Cultural Institute, Goethe Institut, British Council, Instituto Cervantes, and the Open Society Institute, which regularly organise temporary expositions of visual, sound and literary works by artists from their respective countries.

The national church of France in Rome also carries his name: San Luigi dei Francesi in Italian or Saint Louis of France in English.

Maxentius chose to make his stand in front of the Milvian Bridge, a stone bridge that carries the Via Flaminia road across the Tiber River into Rome ( the bridge stands today at the same site, somewhat remodelled, named in Italian Ponte Milvio or sometimes Ponte Molle, soft bridge ).

For example, the character Günter Weber carries a great degree of sympathy from the writer, even though he fully engages with the Nazi ideology and is guilty of taking part in the killing of an entire Italian division.

Rosetta carries the Italian-built VIRTIS instrument while the Philae Lander's sampling / drilling system, SD2, is another major Italian contribution.

Being unable to speak Standard Italian still carries a stigma as it presents a barrier to writing official documents, performing business, or carrying out any kind of legal transaction ( all of which use Standard Italian as the dominant language ).

* Seraglio ( Italian from Persian sarāy " palace, enclosed courts ") carries a similar meaning.

A breeze carries Clara ’ s hat off her head and across the square where a young Italian man miraculously catches it, mid-air, and returns it to her.